Journal-box.



Patented Aug. 5, |902. G. W. LEWIS.

JGURNAL BOX.

(Application Vtiled Apr. 24, 1902.)

(No Model.)

UTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE IV. LEWIS, OF PORTSMOUTH, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOCAMILLUS A. NASH, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

'JOURNAL-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 706,243, dated August5, 1902. Application filed April 24, 1902. Serial No. 104,526. (Nomodel.)

To all ALf/tom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. LEWIS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portsmouth, in the county of Norfolk and State of Virginia,have invented a certain new andv useful Improvement in Journal- Boxes,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to axle or journal boxes, andmore especially tosuch boxes for use in connection with railway-cars; and the object ofthe invention is to simplify the construction of the box proper, andthereby reduce the cost of producinga journal-box having greatlubricating efficiency.

In Patents No. 599,94E4,dated March 1, 1898; No. 615,724, dated December13, 1898, and No. 654,116, dated July-17, 1900, granted to me and Le RoyC. Godwin, journal-boxes are shown in which the dust-guard is arrangedin a pocket formed of the outer rear wall and an inner rear wall and thefloor is provided with a ridge'of the shape of an invertedfV, having itsrear portions curved and merged in the inner rear wall and the sideWalls of the box. In the present invention the inner rear wall and therear curved portions of the Hoor and side walls, as shown in the patentsreferred to, are dispensed with and the iioor of the box is constructedwith a ridge in the shape of an inverted V, extending longitudinally ofthe box from the front wall thereof to within a short distance of therear wall, the space between the said rear wall of the box and the innervertical surface or end of the inVerted-V-shaped ridge serving, inconjunction with an entrance-slot in the top of the box, as a pocket forthe reception of the dust-guard.

Having thus stated the principle of my invention, I will proceed now todescribe the best mode in which I have contemplated applying thatprinciple and then will particularly point out and distinctly claim thepart, improvement, or combination which I claim as my invention.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating my invention, in the severalfigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure 1 is avertical longitudinal section of the box, the journal being inelevation. Fig. 2 is a Vtheir sides.

l vertical cross-section taken vin the plane of line A B, Fig. 1,and'looking in the direction of the arrow, the journal being omitted andthe dust-guard elevated in its pocket. Fig. 3 is a top plan View, thetop of the box being broken out to show the interior of the box, thedust-guard and journal being omitted.

lis the top of the box, 2 is the front wall, 3 is the rear wall, 4 and 5the side walls, and 6 the journal,all of which may be of any approvedconstruction. p

In carrying out my invention I construct the floor of the box with aridge 7 in the shape of an inverted V, extending longitudinally of thebox from the front wall 2 to within a short distance of the rear wall 3and with its apex coaxial with the journal. (See Figs. 1 and 3.)Preferably the inverted-V- shaped ridge is integralwith the floor. Pockets 8 for the reception of' the lubricant and waste-are arranged uponopposite sid es of the ridge, and these pockets extend from the frontwall to within a short distance of the rear Wall 3 of the box, havingthe iioor for their bottoms and the ridge and walls 4: and 5 for Arecess 9 is` formed between the rear wall 3 and the inner verticalsurface or end of the ridge 7 to receive and retain the though it may beof any usual or approved construction. It will be observed that by thisconstruction the inner rear wall usually employed to form, inconjunction with the outer rear wall, the pocket for the dust-guard injournal-boxes is dispensedV with, the dustguard in this instance beingconfined in place by the slot 11 in the top ofthe boxand the recess 9,formed by the inner end surface of the ridge 7 and the rear Wall, and bythus dispensing with such inner rear wall a journal-box is producedwhich is much simplified over previous constructions and is capable ofbeing manufactured less expensively'and much more easily.

The box proper, with its ridged floor and the pocket for retaining thedust-guard, in the preferred form is cast in one piece, although it maybe otherwise constructed.

I wish to be understood as not limiting my IOS) l invention to the exactdetails of construction and its licor constructed with an inverted-V 15ridge extending'from the front Wall to Within a short distance of thesaid rear Wall, there being a recess between the rear wall and innervertical surface or end of the ridge, and a slotted top, said recess,slotted top and rear Wall constituting a pocket for the dust-guard,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of April,A. D. 1902.

GEORGE W. LEWIS. Vitnesses:

A. R. NASH, F. W. CLARK.

